Word: historicization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Whatever tragedy the sight of Little Boy and Fat Man recalled, it was less personal than the recurrent horror that still afflicts former Army Air Corps Major Claude Eatherly, pilot of the reconnaissance plane that fingered Hiroshima for A-bomb attack. It was Eatherly. looking down from his 6-29...
Within Europe itself, NATO's policymakers confront a historic new fact that would have seemed incredible at NATO's birth in 1949. Only 15 years after Hitler's death, a new German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half...
The Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers...
The Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful...
Technically, the area under consideration may lie within the bounds of Cambridge Common, a fact that may cause groups to block the plan. A spokesman for one such group, the Cambridge Historical Society, predicted that the council might vote against the plan because "the Common has historic associations."